....men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. Essay on Kipling.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.